Who Says India Is Not Secular? Do Not Misinterpret It Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Had Hinduism been indifferent and narrow,
The American transcendentalists would not have
Adapted to,
Emerson, Thoreau,
Whitman,
Had it been, they would have themselves discerned it,
Indian thought and philosophy
Is not like that,
Those who interpret it otherwise
Are not aware of Indian religion and spirituality,
Ask you W.B.Yeats,
Ask you T.S.Eliot
Then say to me.
Where did Vivekananda give his lecture first
Outside India,
Was it not Chicago in 1998
And who were in his audience,
The Indians or the Americans,
So say you
Without knowing its history
And its upheavals and repercussions,
Do not misinterpret India in such a way
That people fail to understand it completely,
Do not make the foreigners
Misread it
After sending false information
After spreading false rumours,
Have the minority institutions been vandalized,
Were not the places broken in the past,
Do you not know
The course of its history?